Forum: Second Amendment archaic, rewrite or remove it

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Jun 6, 2014 at 4:46 PMJun 6, 2014 at 4:52 PM

I have advocated for more responsible firearm requirements for a very long time. I have seen and heard all the propaganda that the gun rights folks have said, and it is selective logic combined with outright lies and myths that feed the frenzy.

Having spent 33 years working at Caterpillar and four years in the Air Force, I have worked with a lot of adult men. From that experience, my judgment of the NRA chief, Wayne LaPierre, is that he is self-serving, pompous, and probably more than a bit cracked as well. Sadly, groups like the NRA and ABATE have figured out that their most useful psychology is to say that they are “protecting” some value. It plays to paranoia and is based on a “what if” type of thinking that is simple but effective mental leverage.

The Second Amendment is outdated, abstractly written junk that should be removed or rewritten. Letting the Supreme Court decide what it means becomes an exercise in interpretation based on the lowest common denominator.

My view of firearms: Training, registration, storage requirements and licensing of the owners. Registration might include fingerprinting of the bullet as a means for tracing the firearm if used in a crime. That may seem harsh but it does not exclude ownership, hunting, collecting, self-protection, etc.